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spirators. On 28th September, " Roderick McCloid of 

 Lewis " and the " remanent of his colleagues " were again 

 ordered to appear to answer the charges of treason and 

 Ihe-majeste. The form of this summons is significant : it 

 distinctly suggests that Ruari of Lewis was the arch-rebel, 

 the chief supporter of Donald Dubh, as was Torquil of 

 Lewis forty years previously. On ist October, 1545, 3rd 

 February, 1545-6, 6th April, 24th May, 1st and 3Oth July 

 1 546, the summons was repeated, but brought no response. 

 Meanwhile, Donald Dubh had passed over to 

 Knockfergus in Ireland with 180 galleys and 4,000 men. 

 The despatch from the Irish Privy Council announcing 

 their arrival describes them as " very tall men clothed for 

 the most part in habergeons of mail, armed with long 

 swords and longbows but with few guns." It was expected 

 that the Earl of Lennox, with the 2,000 Irishmen under the 

 Earl of Ormond, would co-operate at Knockfergus with the 

 Hebrideans ; but Lennox being summoned to the camp of 

 the Earl of Hertford, then about to invade Scotland from 

 the Border, a postponement of the contemplated campaign 

 became necessary. After waiting some time in vain for 

 Lennox, Donald Dubh returned to Scotland. This was 

 the beginning of the end. The campaign, which had been 

 initiated with such unwonted harmony between clans some 

 of which were normally hostile to one another, terminated 

 with a miserable squabble about money. MacVurich 

 informs us that a ship came to Mull from England, carry- 

 ing the sinews of war for the prosecution of the campaign. 

 The money was given to Maclean of Duart for distribution 

 among the chiefs, but Duart's disbursement of the cash 

 gave rise to discontent, which led to the disruption of the 

 army and to the end of the rebellion, so far as the Islesmen 

 were concerned. From first to last, there is little in the 

 incidents of this insurrection which redounds to the credit 

 of the Hebridean chiefs, except their blind devotion to the 

 Head of the House of Clan Donald. On the arrival of 

 Lennox in Ireland, he found that all his plans had been 

 disarranged and his hopes dissipated, by the action of 



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